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Prochoice

Caitlin Rotherham
Laura Kappel
English 1158, Section 21
19 March 2007
It's Not Illegal, Let's Keep it That Way!
Audience: People who are against abortion or who do not know the facts about abortion.

Abortion. The word is on the mind of pro-life people who scream that it is murder and on the mind pro-choice people who scream for women's rights. The fact is, abortion has been around since ancient times and even if it is made illegal it will continue to be around.
. In the 18th–19th centuries various doctors, clerics, and social reformers successfully pushed for an all-out ban on abortion. However, during the 20th century abortion has become legal in many Western countries, but it is regularly subjected to legal challenges and restrictions by pro-life groups. Abortion should not be made illegal because it is woman's right to choose what she does to her body, if abortion is made illegal women will find other (perhaps even dangerous) ways of getting an abortion, and no one can really determine when the point of life begins.
One reason abortions should not be made illegal is that women have and always will have a right to choose. There is an old quote that says "your body is your temple," meaning it is exactly that, a woman's body is hers, no one elses. Which should mean that no one should have the authority to tell women what to do with their "temple." Women, like all Americans, have their right to privacy. If women choose to have an abortion, it is exactly that, their choice. No one, not the government, not their husband, not their boyfriend should take away that choice. (ADD MORE)
Another reason women should have the right to decide to have an abortion is because if a woman doesn't want to continue a pregnancy all the way (for whatever reason), she should have the freedom to end it, safely and easily. In 1973, the Supreme Court made it legal for women to have safe and legal abortions in the case Roe v. Wade. If this decision is overturned and...